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Old 06-09-2009
send all mail to files instead of relaying out
I had a wierd request from one of our guys. We are running on RedHat EL5. He asked that all mail originating from 3 servers he owns be sent to files instead of being sent out. My first thought is to set "Smart" relay host in sendmail.cf on each of the 3 servers so all messages are sent to a 4th server. On the 4th server setup a smtp server to archive all the messages.

I probably won't go this route because ALL messages, including emails SA's may have coming out of cron jobs or scripts, will not get delivered properly. But, I'm working on a way to just send the messages coming out of his app to the "blackhole" smtp server. If I can do that:

1) Do you know of a way to setup a smtp server so that it stores all incoming messages in files (queue?) but doesn't ever relay them?
2) Any better solutions? I could just send them to files local to each of the 3 servers and then consolidate them some other way but I don't know how to send them all to a file locally either.

Thanks,

MG
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bundle

BUNDLE(1)						      General Commands Manual							 BUNDLE(1)

NAME

       bundle - collect files for distribution

SYNOPSIS

       bundle file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Bundle  writes  on  its	standard output a shell script for rc(1) or a Bourne shell which, when executed, will recreate the original files.
       Its main use is for distributing small numbers of text files by mail(1).

       Although less refined than standard archives from ar(1) or tar(1), a bundle file is self-documenting and complete;  little  preparation	is
       required on the receiving machine.

EXAMPLES

       bundle mkfile *.[ch] | mail kremvax!boris
	      Send  a  makefile  to Boris together with related and files.  Upon receiving the mail, Boris may save the file sans postmark, say in
	      gift/horse, then do

       cd gift; rc horse; mk

SOURCE

       /rc/bin/bundle

SEE ALSO

       ar(1), tar(1), mail(1)

BUGS

       Bundle will not create directories and is unsatisfactory for non-text files.
       Beware of gift horses.

																	 BUNDLE(1)